Pacing Sheet

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Project Summary
This semester you will participate in a long-term monitoring project. This will involve you going outside approximately every 4 weeks onto public lands that is behind AHS. Whose land is it and why is it considered public? Go see by visiting AVIS This group project will involve data collection, map making, descriptive writing, observations, and peer editing/evaluating. You will choose your own groups based on your skill set, resources and personalities. We are a community and I expect you to work together are one fostering learning and collaboration between all students.

Project goals and Essential Questions

1. To investigate the North American Deciduous Forest biome and its aquatic habitats.
2. To conduct long term monitoring - authentic data collection and become familiar with field data collection techniques
3. To research, investigate and observe the direct and indirect impacts humans have on their environment.

Reference Pack: Reference Pack s11 L1.pdf

Data Sheets

• Weather data collection: weather recording sheet.doc
  • weather link http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/dailystns.shtml
  • Weather data key link: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/f6.php?wfo=box
• Chemical Testing Data Sheet: data recording sheet level 1.doc
• Site Description prompts: Site Description sheet.doc
• Blank Map: blank map 3x3.doc

Final Project
Presentation talking points 2-4 minutes

1. site name
2. what makes your site a swamp, stream or pond - what makes it unique
3. coolest thing you saw
4. one thing you learned as a group

Fact Cards

CONSUMER

• Consumer Species list B1
• Herbivore Block 1
• Stream 1 - Copperhead
• Pond 1- Canada Goose
• Swamp 1- American Bullfrog (tadpole)
• Pond 2- North American Beaver and water flea
• Consumer Species list B4
• Consumer Fact Card Consumer fact card mjs f11

PRODUCER

• Producer Fact Card Lists (Blocks 1 & 4) First come, First serve! No Duplicates!
• Producer Fact Card Producer fact card mjs f11.doc

HERBIVORE
-B1 Herbivore List:
swap 2-
gray squirrel
swamp rabbit
Pond 1- Canada Goose
Pond 2- Egyptian Goose, Southern Cricket Frog



Stream 2- North American Beaver
-B4 Herbivore List:
Prokelisia marginata-- coypu backup (Beth and Vivian)
Stream 1 (Libby and Christian)- Ripple Bug (Microvelia americana)
Pond 1: American Beaver (Castor canadensis)
Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)
Pond 2: Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina),
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Swamp 1: Muskrat and swamp rabbit


Stream 2: Cankerworm , common earthworm
CARNIVORE
stream 2: Red tailed hawk

Block 1

Pond 1 - Priscilla, Tori, Brooke, Diana
Pond 2- Michelle, Julia, Kristina, Sara
Stream 1- Paige, Mckenzie, Basia, and Jaime
Stream 2- Lea, Rosa, Connor and Mike-
Swamp 1- Connie, Jeremy, and Muzhdah
Swamp 2- kate, julia, katie, jay

Block 4

Pond 1- Hasib, Nick, Jason, Emily
Pond 2- Jeffrey, Daniel, Alex, Jack, Noah.
Stream 1 Beth, Vivian, Libby, Christian
Stream 2: Sean, Mary, Jessica, Sylvia
Swamp 1 Maureen, Katie, Jillian, Julia
Swamp 2- Jackie, Carly, Elizabeth, Griffin, Hamza